Architecture
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News from Calgary and Banff
This past month in Calgary, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada held its first in-person conference since 2019, showcasing the recent opening of...
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Farewell to Malabar, Toronto’s former costume emporium
Malabar Limited, the famed costume emporium, closed in March 2022. Although it had been a fixture of downtown Toronto’s cultural landscape for 99 years...
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Book Review: Building With Paper – Architecture and Construction
Edited by Ulrich Knaack, Rebecca Bach, and Samuel Schabel – Berkhauser Verlag, 2023 To identify industrial solutions in the building industry...
By Sean Ruthen -
Talking Landscape Architecture: An Interview with Marc Treib
Anne Whiston Spirn once described landscape as “...a language derived from the core activity of landscape architecture: artfully shaping, from...
By Erick Villagomez -
Vancouver ™
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Reinier de Graaf’s recently published book, Architect, Verb.: The New Language of Building...
By Spacing -
Mackenzie Place: The tallest residential building in Canada’s North
EDITOR’S NOTE: In Spacing #29/2013, photographer Jesse Colin Jackson and anthropologist Lindsay Bell wrote about MacKenzie Place, the tallest...
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Book Review: American Urbanist
Author: Richard K. Rein (Island Press, 2022) “In our attention to making organization work we have come close to deifying it. We are describing its...
By Sean Ruthen -
S101 Series: Introduction and Call
If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times: cities are complex. But that doesn’t mean they need to be complicated. Complexity refers to...
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LORINC: Can the Ontario Science Centre save Ontario Place?
Here’s a strange little detail about the 20-car pile-up that is the Ontario Place redevelopment scheme: Shortly before Christmas, the province...
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Book Review: The Ecologies of The Building Envelope – A Material History and Theory of Architectural Surfaces
Author: Alejandro Zaera-Polo & Jeffrey S. Anderson (Actar Publishers, 2021) Given the number of books I read and review every year, it is rare to be...
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As is: Photographs of Ontario Place, 2021- 2022
In advance of Spacing’s upcoming issue focused on Ontario Place, we are sharing some of photographer Steven Evans’s images of the site. See...
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Book Review: Ron Thom Architect – The Life of a Creative Modernist
Author: Adele Weder (Greystone Publishing, 2022) Drawing on extensive archival research and over one hundred interviews, this definitive biography –...
By Sean Ruthen